Author Archives: Jeremy Goldkorn

Mobile and the new new media

Mark your calendars: The Fourth Danwei Plenary Session is scheduled for Wednesday January 27, 2010. It’s a panel discussion all about mobile phones and the media business.

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Heaviest snowfall in 6 decades in Beijing

The National Meteorological Center said that the snowfall in Beijing is the highest in a day since 1951 and predict that in the next two days the temperature will fall to -16 Celsius (3.2 Fahrenheit), the lowest since 1980s.

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The Internet and rural education in China

Part 2 of Danwei’s interviews at the 2009 Chinese blogger conference, held in a cave in Lianzhou in November. This clip features rural teachers who use the Internet.

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GFW outage

A brief breakdown of the Great FireWall.

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Picking off the small troublemakers…

Three prominent blogs blocked.

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A most depressing lede

Chinese police have arrested nine people suspected of trafficking mentally disabled people from Leibo County in southwest China’ Sichuan Province to other areas and then murdering them in coal mines to blackmail the mine owners, police said Wednesday.

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Chinese books, collections and libraries

Highlights from the latest issue of China Heritage Quarterly, now online.

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Merry Christmas in Beijing

A video of Christmas kitsch in Beijing by Janek Zdzarski.

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Official report on CCTV building fire

10 year anniversary of Macao’s return to the PRC, and some news about the CCTV building fire.

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Chinese people’s English names

A new book about Chinese people’s English names.

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